Upcoming Adult Grieving Workshop by Lee Pratt

Please join us on Tuesday, May 7 at 10 am at the Smyrna Arboretum Gazebo for "Grief Brief: Nature & Grieving".  

Description:

Lee Pratt will offer her nature-based GPS: Grief Processing Support, outside Smyrna Library on May 7. Participants will practice skills to process grief, outdoors. Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a beach towel to sit on. Some chairs will be available.

Speaker Bio: 

Lee Pratt is a Grief Guide who specializes in connecting grieving people to each other and back to nature. She has traveled and lived on five continents, working in the fields of Education, Sustainability, and Senior Care. Lee's goal is to build community-based grief care with a focus on healing in nature.

Annual Spring Book Sale Results

Thank you, Volunteers & Shoppers, for taking a break from the beautiful weather over the weekend and supporting the Friends of Smyrna Library Annual Spring Book Sale.  

We raised almost $1,500 and the proceeds will be used to purchase new titles for the Youth Services collection.  

Smyrna Public Library Hosts Eclipse Party

The Smyrna Public Library hosted an Eclipse Party at the new Downtown Greenspace yesterday.  

The partial solar eclipse peaked at 3:05 pm.  A total solar eclipse was viewable in parts of the United States. Smyrna experienced 80% occlusion, so more than three-fourths of the sun was blocked.

Attendees brought blankets and snacks, and spread out on the new greenspace lawn while enjoying the celestial show.  The Smyrna Public Library Staff provided eclipse-themed crafts and the Friends of Smyrna Library purchased the eclipse sunglasses for 250 families.

Upcoming First Sunday Lecture: Keeping the Chattahoochie

Sunday Lecture: "Keeping the Chattahoochee" by Sally Sierer Bethea

Sunday, April 7

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Smyrna Library Meeting Room

Light refreshments will be served.

Sally Sierer Bethea was one of the first women in America to become a “riverkeeper”—a vocal defender of a specific waterway who holds polluters accountable. 

In Keeping the Chattahoochee, she tells stories that range from joyous and funny to frustrating—even alarming—to illustrate what it takes to save an endangered river. Her tales are triggered by the regular walks she takes through a forest to the Chattahoochee over the course of a year, finding solace and kinship in nature.

The Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.